Packet for braids, laces, and other narrow fabrics.



PATBNTED MAR. 10, 1908.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR.1 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PEROY GARDNER,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO GARDNER & HIGHET COMPANY, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PACKET FOR BRAIDS, LACES, AND OTHER NARROW FABRICS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 10, 1908.

Application filed March 1, 1906. 7 Serial No. 303,666.

In packing featherstitch and other braids,

laces, embroideries, webbing and other narrow fabrics of every description, it is desirous to completely inclose the body of the goods within a durable packet to prevent their damage by dust, dirt, or exposure to the sun; to indicate plainly on the outside of the packet the character and quality of the goods; to prevent the use of the goods without destroying the packet, and to prevent all unnecessary waste of the goods by cutting samples. Hitherto these results have not been obtained, for when the goods are completely sealed within the wrapper, it is necessary to break the wrapper and unwrap them in order that they may be examined, and when they are not immediately sold they are more or less soiled in handling and when samples are out which are fastened to the outside of the wrapper, there is always a consequent waste. As the margin of profit in the sale of many classes of goods of the character described is very small, these wastes materially affect the net receipts derived from the sale of the goods. By my method and the packet which I use, I overcome these difficulties, by inclosing the body of the goods within a packet, and by so wrapping or winding them that an end protrudes from the packet, which end I attach to the face thereof.

Fig. 3 is a per-l spective view of the back of the packet; and Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line ac w of Fig. 1..

In wrapping apiece of goods in accordance with my method, I use a packet of flat oblong shape, such as is shown in the drawing, which may be made of any suitable material. A shows the face of the packet, the end B of which I completely seal and the other end 0 of which I also seal, making or leaving an opening or slit D which will permit the end of the piece of goods to protrude. I prefer to wind the goods H around a piece of cardboard G having a flat surface, before inclosing them in the packet, which keeps the goods in shape and makes it impossible to pull them from the packet by drawing on the protruding end. When the goods are inclosed within the packet, the end thereof is passed through the opening or slit D in the ap of the said packet, after which the said flap is sealed and the end of the goods E is fastened to the face of the packet by a seal F or by any other means.

It will be obvious that by the hereinbefore described method for incasing fabric, the

goods are erfectly protected from exposure and possib ie injury, while free inspection of the same is permitted to ascertain the nature and quality of the goods in the packet.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

As an improved article of commerce, a braid packet, consisting of an envelop permanently closed at one end, and a package of braid confined within said envelop with one end passed through an opening in the opposite end of said envelop and extended outside the latter, and means securing said end to the outer face of the envelop, the

,end of the envelop through which said end PERCY GARDNER.

Witnesses:

FRANK B. HIGHET, WILLIAM W. MYERS. 

